Saturday, May 25, 2019

NYT, sheesh

A sentence from Dwight Garner’s review of Wendell Berry’s What I Stand On: The Collected Essays:


[The New York Times, May 20, 2019. Click for a larger mistake.]

I read this sentence last night. This morning the mistake’s still there.

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7 comments:

  1. Is it like a a Hi and Lois interstice?
    Between the subject and the verb, a change has taken place?

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  2. That’s wonderful! And makes me think:

    Between the subject
    And the verb
    Falls the Interstice.

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  3. LOL.
    Should that be, "Fall the Insterstice"? :)

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  4. LOL, indeed!

    I suppose that’s what happens when you “streamline” the process of editing.

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  5. "The interstice falls between the subject and [the] verb."

    "falls" seems to be correct.

    Just had to do that.

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  6. The "streamline" link lead me to some comments about errors in book publishing, so I thought I'd post my favorite here. I had to look several times to be sure I wasn't imagining it.

    http://www.slywy.com/typographical-error-road-monticello/

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  7. Some library! That are quite a gaffe.

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